My unholy love for Elias Koteas comes from him playing Ducan from Some Kind of Wonderful (the character is a total prototype for Weevil from Veronica Mars). I'm somehow not as ashamed of this as I should be.
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'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Buffista Movies 5: Development Hell
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Vonnie K - Mar 24, 2007 4:10:15 pm PDT #7987 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
bon bon - Mar 24, 2007 6:16:34 pm PDT #7988 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I just saw The Illusionist last night! I thought the first hour was a little boring, but definitely sped up nicely at the end. I liked Norton the best I'd ever liked him, and Paul Giamatti was great. Jessica Biels was serviceable.
Elias Koteas is a friend of Bob Bob's brother-- a nice guy, apparently, FWIW. I liked him in Zodiac.
Kathy A - Mar 24, 2007 6:38:38 pm PDT #7989 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Elias Koteas was the lead in The Prophecy--not too bad, but the angels were all designed to be the memorable ones in the film, not him or Virginia Madsen.
DavidS - Mar 24, 2007 7:00:39 pm PDT #7990 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
but the angels were all designed to be the memorable ones in the film, not him or Virginia Madsen.
As Matt likes to note, it's the movie where Christopher Walken isn't the scariest person on screen. (That honor going to Viggo.)
Elias is (for me) always Vaughn in Crash (the J.G. Ballard one of kinky car wreck sex, not the spinach movie)
Scrappy - Mar 24, 2007 8:03:18 pm PDT #7991 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Just got back from seeing The Host. It's just your average Korean comedy-horror-family-anti-pollution-coming-of-age-satire, the perfect film for my first outing since surgery. Really great film and I can recommend it wholeheartedly to most Buffistas.
Fiona - Mar 24, 2007 10:37:42 pm PDT #7992 of 10001
This question:
4) Favorite Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger movie
from the quiz MADE me rewatch "A Matter of Life and Death" last night. Oh the hardship. Was the young David Niven ever more charming? And that's saying something.
It's was SO's first P&P movie. His comment: "abgefahren", which translates as cool, spacy, way-out, wicked. Yeah, he gets it.
megan walker - Mar 25, 2007 3:29:49 am PDT #7993 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
His comment: "abgefahren", which translates as cool, spacy, way-out, wicked. Yeah, he gets it.
You should do Black Narcissus next--talk about abgefahren. That PP question was so hard, just cause I love them all.
Theodosia - Mar 25, 2007 3:46:49 am PDT #7994 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Abgefahren = "Far out, man!" :-)
Tom Scola - Mar 25, 2007 7:04:56 am PDT #7995 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Anti-littering PSA from David Lynch: [link]
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 25, 2007 11:22:31 am PDT #7996 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I just got back from the international film fest showing of Almodovar's All About my Mother. SO happy that I waited to see this on the big screen for the full immersion experience. Cecilia Roth just blew me away - I think that's the best performance by an actress I've seen in the past year.